Garry
About 47,849 American babies have been named Garry since 1880, most of them around 1954. Its origin is given as a surname. In 2025 it ranked 5,861st. About 32,000 Garrys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 67.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Garry boys named Garry
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 47,849
- Estimated living today
- 32,000
- Median age today
- 67
- Peak year
- 1954
- Best rank
- 138th
- Rank in 2025
- 5,861st
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 179 / 47,670
How old the living Garrys are
born that year still alive today
Of the 47,849 babies given the name since 1880, about 32,000 are alive — 67 in every hundred. Roughly 530 of them are children and 19,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1958 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin a surname
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Garrys
- Garry Kasparov (born 1963)Russian chess grandmaster and activist
- Garry Shandling (1949–2016)American comedian
- Garry Marshall (1934–2016)American actor and filmmaker
- Garry Mendes Rodrigues (born 1990)Dutch-born Cape Verdean footballer
- Garry Monk (born 1979)English footballer
- Garry Birtles (born 1956)English football player and manager
- Garry Conille (born 1966)Prime Minister of Haiti in 2024
- Garry Winogrand (1928–1984)American street photographer
People named Garry with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Garry is most common
Across the country Garry is recorded 13.3 times per 100,000 births, so these are the states above that line. Only states with 50 or more recorded Garrys are ranked here: below that a handful of births makes a rate that moves on chance alone.
Counts favour the big states, which is why the same few lead this list for almost every name.
Births recorded in each state since 1910. A name given to fewer than five babies in one state in one year is not published, so a name's quietest states are missing from this rather than showing zero. Browse names by state.
Names of 1954
The most popular boys’ names the year Garry peaked:
Garry elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scotland boys | Garry | 2,483 | 53rd |
| New Zealand boys | Garry | 1,840 | 38th |
| Ireland boys | Garry | 1,746 | 79th |
| France boys | Garry | 1,535 | 249th |
| England and Wales boys | Garry | 243 | 573rd |
| Northern Ireland boys | Garry | 6 | 272nd |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Related names
Garry against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.